According to the Rockford Register, Sept. 9, 1922, the early games were played just north of "the Old Masonic Bloc." The team included James S. Barry, Ezra H. Evans, Joseph H. Hunt, Edwin A. Irvine, William H. Mix, Morris P. Osborn, William Ballard Osborn, Nahum F. Parsons, David W. Spaulding (cousin of Albert G.), and Garret C. Stires. Stires and Ballard Osborn played for Rockford's Forest City club starting in 1868.